Uwe Rosenkranz, Founder and CEOR&L Solar Solutions’ efforts tie in with those of many countries across the globe that have started to emphasize the need for proactive, green, and sustainable initiatives. National and state governments alike have begun sternly advocating the adoption of electric vehicles (EV), imposing carbon taxes, and rewarding the implementation of solar-powered solutions to cut down carbon emission levels as quickly as possible. There has also been a visible change in the power trends of today where certain policies like the feed-in tariff (FIT) are being superseded by more promising corporate power purchase agreements (PPA) or energy spot marketing in the utilities and government landscapes. However, several criteria for inexpensive solar energy projects and independence of subsidies for energy production need to be met to effectuate a desirable, sustainable new source of clean and renewable power.
According to Uwe Rosenkranz, co-founder of R&L Solar Solutions, the main challenge that perturbs the energy marketplace—for commercial and industrial purposes—ultimately revolves around sales consumption. Following this is energy storage: the biggest disadvantage of solar power-based solutions. Having recognized such hindrances very early on and heeding the warnings of practically every climate and geological professional, Rosenkranz was more than determined to develop utilitarian solutions and successively co-founded his company alongside Suhong Li. The duo envisioned the prospect of offering the world viable, sustainable, and affordable energy solutions that it so desperately requires.
Combining Passion and Patience
Highly-motivated entrepreneurs established R&L as a private engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) and operations and maintenance (O&M) organization. The company is solely dedicated to supporting utility-scale, commercial, and industrial solar projects to drive sustainability on a global scale. It helps governments and corporations spanning international borders overcome their sustainability challenges by developing solutions and products for utility-scale solar farms with a capacity of over one megawatt, including tailored roof-top solutions, solar carports, and floating photovoltaic (FPV) systems. R&L, with its vast experience in the field, R&L has also gained the trust of the Japanese government to install and maintain mega solar parks across the nation, implementing turnkey solutions abreast with propagating agricultural solar sharing practices.
The factors that led to the founding of this holistic, environmentcentric organization are many, but Rosenkranz expresses that two main preconditions need to be satisfied to enjoy its current level of success: passion and patience. “I am the passion, the entrepreneur; this job is my hobby, and it is everything to me. I am very lucky to have found a partner that is patient and is able to execute our ideas,” he shares. The co-founder continues to express his concerns for the future. “We only have one world, and we need to make sure that our children, and their children, can enjoy the wonder of nature. In other words, we must find ways to lower our carbon dioxide emissions.
An Unparalleled, Sustainable Strategy
R&L additionally factors in land and soil conditions when architecting solar farms and other large structures for multiple projects. It intends to minimize civil work as it searches for the most stable and economic foundation to build renewable power generation units that can withstand the test of time and nature. In Japan, for instance, earthquakes, heavy snowfall and typhoons frequent the country, where land is a very limited resource. Rosenkranz and his team thus follow a very straightforward principle to maximize energy generation capacity, minimized civil work vs highest yields.. “We achieve our results based on the application of German engineering, Japanese quality management, and Chinese OEM capabilities,” expresses the CEO.
We only have one world, and we need to make sure that our children, and their children, can enjoy the wonder of nature. In other words, we must find ways to lower our carbon dioxide emissions
The company also uses many ecofriendly material substitutes when devising its tailor-made solutions. It carries out thorough feasibility studies along with topographical and geotechnical surveys. Post which, with its highly experienced team and extremely reliable partnerships with industry-leading manufacturers, the company moves toward installation. R&L makes effective use of wood instead of steel, recyclable and strong plastics instead of concrete piling, and other such materials to lower the carbon footprint of each project, and this was 15 years ago. The company has since developed more feasible solutions like its highly intuitive FPV systems large-scale solar park designs and offers 24/7 customer support that ensures a continuous generation of energy.
